3rd grade Instructional Guide

Canyons School District

Instructional Supports Department

Writing Rubric 3rd - 5th Grade Narrative

Score

Statement of Purpose/Focus and Organization (4)

Conventions (2)

The response is fully sustained and consistently and purposefully focused: Writes real or imagined experiences or events Effectively introduces narrator and/or characters Sequence unfolds naturally

4

Use concrete words and phrases to provide descriptive details regarding what happened such as actions, thoughts, feelings, sensory details, dialogue, and pacing Uses a variety of temporal words, phrases, and clauses to signal event order Provides an effective conclusion that follows the experience or event

The response is adequately sustained and generally focused: Writes real or imagined experiences or events Introduces narrator and/or characters Sequence unfolds naturally

3

Use concrete words and phrases to provide descriptive details regarding what happened such as actions, thoughts, feelings, sensory details, and dialogue Uses a variety of temporal words and phrases to signal event order Provides a conclusion that follows the experience or event

The response is somewhat sustained, may have a minor drift in focus, an, may be missing some elements:

The response demonstrates an adequate command of conventions: Text cohesion Sentence structure phrasing

2

Writes about one real/imagined experience or event Minimally introduces the narrator and/or characters Poorly sequenced events Unclear, irrelevant, and/or lack of descriptive details of what happened Inconsistent use of temporal words